Transfer Portal 2025

[AreaLax]

Former Syracuse LSM Tommy Drago is transferring to join @DukeMLAX, a source tells @Inside_Lacrosse.

Drago caused two TOs and picked up 3GBs in 17 games for the Orange this spring. His brother Anthony is a 5-star ’25 committed to the Blue Devils.

[youthathletics]

Another query from the appreciative peanut gallery:

Service Academies. No inbound Transfers, right?

So with just one bite at the recruiting apple, so to speak, they're at a distinct disadvantage as to hoovering up the late, late bloomers. Therefore, they're at a disadvantage as to building a month-of May juggernaut as well.....more's the pity.

They don't take transfers but they have virtually unlimited class sizes. Navy is listed as having 21 incoming recruits, over half of whom either prepped at Navy prep or did a grad year at another prep school, essentially being redshirts.

I don't begrudge anything the academies do because of what they are there to do, but recruiting isn't necessarily a crutch for them either. Their 24 roster has 64 players listed. That's a lot of bites at the apple out of HS.

The most recent naps class I saw, within the past 3 years, there were maybe 4 actual recruited players on the team one rehabbing an ACL all year. There were players on the naps team that would not make the club team at navy. There are players recruited to play on the naps team that had never played lax before.

It’s a great prep for the academy but it’s not a place to get better at lax. Most recruits I believe by far are direct admits now at navy not from the prep school.

And the list of recruited players coming in for future classes that you might see posted somewhere. Many of these are not coach recruited players that the coach will fight to get in often they are players from HS who will show up at tryouts pleb year and then after one day will head to the club team never once making the varsity in their 4 years

Correct. 1766 would be accurate if he were talking about HS grad classes of 17’ and earlier.

[HopFan16]

Incoming transfers to

Albany: Rocco Mareno (FO, Towson)
Boston U: Sam Burns (M, Ohio State), Matt Caputo (A, Ohio State)
Bryant: Richie Reid (M, St. John's), Brian Russell (M, Merrimack), Sage Garito (G, Franklin & Marshall), Nick Vance (M, Denison)
Bucknell: Luke Renaud (G, UMass Lowell)
Canisius: Jeff Douglas (D, Ursinus)
Dartmouth: Will Stahl (M, Holy Cross), Thomas Power (A, Colorado College)
Delaware: Cory Capri (A, Yale), Jack Kolbe (A, Merrimack), Aiden Bodonyi (D, Ohio State)
Denver: Judge Murphy (A, St. Lawrence)
Duke: Aiden Blake (M, Cornell), Graham Blake (A, Harvard), Paul Weathington (SSDM, Princeton), Eric Malever (A, Maryland), Luke Grayum (A, Richmond), Chris Cusolito (M, Providence), Tommy Drago (LSM, Syracuse)
Fairfield: KJ Delane (A, Merrimack), Luke Fisher (A, Denison)
Georgetown: Fulton Bayman (A, Notre Dame), Jack Erb (SSDM, Georgetown)
High Point: Jeb Brenfleck (A, Penn State)
Hofstra: Jon Singer (G, Ursinus)
Jacksonville: Drew Kessenich (M, Detroit Mercy), Dom Zingo (D, Lynchburg), Parker Yearego (M, Cleveland State)
Johns Hopkins: Jack Monfort (SSDM, Yale), John McKee (FO, Dickinson), Patrick Hackler (M, Yale), Luke Staudt (G, Loyola), Colby Weishaar (M/LSM/D, UMBC)
Le Moyne: Tom Vaughan (A, Cabrini)
LIU: Benjamin Schuster (M, Mount St. Mary's)
Loyola: Vinnie Trujillo (SSDM, Syracuse)
Manhattan: Connor Engel (A, Lindenwood)
Marquette: Jack Casey (D, Army), Chandler Caster (FO, Hofstra)
Maryland: Noah Armitage (M, Stony Brook), Bryce Ford (A, Fairfield), AJ Hernandez (D, Navy), Zack Goorno (SSDM, Bowdoin), Matthew Keegan (A, Binghamton), Luca Ward (A, Holy Cross), Jack Dowd (M, Salisbury)
Michigan: Pace Billings (LSM, Princeton), Lukas Stanat (M, Princeton), Will Byrne (A, Bowdoin), DJ Dixon (M, Wesleyan), Jackson Clay (A/M, High Point)
Mount St. Mary's: Nathan Committee (D, Bellarmine), Jack Smith (A, Randolph Macon)
NJIT: Russ Maher (M, Johns Hopkins), Dylan Sebastian (A, Hofstra)
North Carolina: Michael Gianforcaro (G, Princeton), Spencer Wirtheim (M, Cornell), Nick Dupuis (A, Stony Brook), Andrew O'Berry (SSDM, Harvard), Drew Scott (M, TCU football)
Notre Dame: Greg Campisi (LSM, Harvard), Drew Wynocker (M, Denver)
Ohio State: Ryan Donnery (M, Quinnipiac), Corey O'Connor (D, High Point), Mason Bregman (A, UMass), Shane O'Leary (M, UMass)
Penn: Chris Patterson (A, Hobart)
Penn State: Jack Aimone (M, Rutgers)
Providence: Dan Donahue (G, Union)
Richmond: Ethan Gyllenhaal (SSDM, Bucknell), Brooks Rhine (D, Hobart), Jack Dougherty (M, Stony Brook)
Rutgers: Joseph Juengerkes (SSDM, Princeton), Ethan Barnard (FO, Bowdoin), Kasey Mongillo (M, Merrimack), Greyson Vorgang (A, Denver), Brian Mack (D, Siena), Ben Stephanos (D, UMBC)
Saint Joseph's: Keaton Zavitz (M, Ohio State)
Sacred Heart: Matt Pepe (A, Bryant)
St. John's: Max Coopman (D, Bellarmine)
Stony Brook: Colin Reilly (M, North Carolina), Ethan Linsay (A, Army), Jack Crosby (LSM, Rutgers), Colin Langton (D, Stony Brook)
Syracuse: Mike Grace (D, RIT), Ryder Ochoa (SSDM, St. John's)
UMass: Gavin Begonia (A, Ohio State), Trace Hogan (M, Merrimack)
Villanova: Tyler Sandoval (FO, Princeton), Brett Mallee (D, Yale)
Virginia: Johnny Hackett (M, Bryant), Charles Balsamo (A/M, Duke)

*Notable* players in portal:

Attack
Dutch Furlong, Bucknell
Blake Behlen, Stony Brook
Koleton Marquis, Johns Hopkins
Owen Murphy, Maryland
Ryan DiRocco, Army
Owen Bunten, Army

Midfield
Tommy Barnds, Princeton
Luke Nestor, Salisbury
Trevor Douglas, Quinnipiac
Griffin Turner, Hofstra
Nick Turrini, Lehigh
Gavin Dallas, Denver

Defense
Colin Hart, Brown
Mitch Dunham, Mount St. Mary's
Owen Quinn, UMass
Jordan Vincent, Syracuse

Goalie
Jamison MacLachlan, Stony Brook
Jack VanValkenburgh, Albany

FO
Andrew DeGennaro, Harvard
Andrew Greenspan, Notre Dame

[HopFan16]

Former Denver FOGO John Totaro now has "UVA" listed in his Instagram bio

[youthathletics]

This sport sure seems to be in disarray or is this representative of the times….seems so many are not happy getting an education.

[DocBarrister]

This sport sure seems to be in disarray or is this representative of the times….seems so many are not happy getting an education.

More options and more freedom for student athletes. Nothing wrong with that.

DocBarrister

[wgdsr]

This sport sure seems to be in disarray or is this representative of the times….seems so many are not happy getting an education.

c'mon, youth. don't act like you've been asleep for 15 years. youth sports, feeding to h.s., feeding to college has been in disarray for quite a long time. even as it's gotten "more organized". it's been a $¿¡+ show. no reason to think there wouldn't be waves of things in college that an observer would eventually find alarming. i'm well into the "tell me what guys are on the team and when we play" part.

[blue angels]

This sport sure seems to be in disarray or is this representative of the times….seems so many are not happy getting an education.

More options and more freedom for student athletes. Nothing wrong with that.

DocBarrister

I have no idea what is going on with this situation or even if accurate. However, some times kids transfer without it being a lacrosse decision. Collucci transferred to Virginia last year for graduate school from maybe Bucknell and just walked on. It wasn’t initiated or pushed by Lars. Then the kid ended up being a key sub on face offs. Who knows?

[Laxbuck]

This sport sure seems to be in disarray or is this representative of the times….seems so many are not happy getting an education.

c'mon, youth. don't act like you've been asleep for 15 years. youth sports, feeding to h.s., feeding to college has been in disarray for quite a long time. even as it's gotten "more organized". it's been a $¿¡+ show. no reason to think there wouldn't be waves of things in college that an observer would eventually find alarming. i'm well into the "tell me what guys are on the team and when we play" part.

The college games are as good as they have ever been. The off field order of business is much different and changing rapidly but in the end that is background noise. The on field competition is what matters and it’s great.

[youthathletics]

This sport sure seems to be in disarray or is this representative of the times….seems so many are not happy getting an education.

c'mon, youth. don't act like you've been asleep for 15 years. youth sports, feeding to h.s., feeding to college has been in disarray for quite a long time. even as it's gotten "more organized". it's been a $¿¡+ show. no reason to think there wouldn't be waves of things in college that an observer would eventually find alarming. i'm well into the "tell me what guys are on the team and when we play" part.

I supose I was just 'hoping' to see things settle down post cv19 messes.

[Formerhound]

Former Syracuse LSM Tommy Drago is transferring to join @DukeMLAX, a source tells @Inside_Lacrosse.

Drago caused two TOs and picked up 3GBs in 17 games for the Orange this spring. His brother Anthony is a 5-star ’25 committed to the Blue Devils.

Drago is a 2020 4 star who was recruited by Desko/Rogers. Didn’t play as a freshman, one game as a sophomore and 4 as a junior. 17 games last year. With Olexo gone Drago was the most experienced LSM on the Cuse roster. Wonder what happened there?

[1766]

Former Syracuse LSM Tommy Drago is transferring to join @DukeMLAX, a source tells @Inside_Lacrosse.

Drago caused two TOs and picked up 3GBs in 17 games for the Orange this spring. His brother Anthony is a 5-star ’25 committed to the Blue Devils.

Drago is a 2020 4 star who was recruited by Desko/Rogers. Didn’t play as a freshman, one game as a sophomore and 4 as a junior. 17 games last year. With Olexo gone Drago was the most experienced LSM on the Cuse roster. Wonder what happened there?

Surprised he lasted there as long as he did. He was looking to transfer long before now.

[BrownDad]

Former Syracuse LSM Tommy Drago is transferring to join @DukeMLAX, a source tells @Inside_Lacrosse.

Drago caused two TOs and picked up 3GBs in 17 games for the Orange this spring. His brother Anthony is a 5-star ’25 committed to the Blue Devils.

Drago is a 2020 4 star who was recruited by Desko/Rogers. Didn’t play as a freshman, one game as a sophomore and 4 as a junior. 17 games last year. With Olexo gone Drago was the most experienced LSM on the Cuse roster. Wonder what happened there?

My guess is he looked around and saw 8 LSMs on the roster next year including Olexo (probably and a 4 star they're bringing in), saw an opportunity to play a year with his brother, realized the winters are much nicer in Durham, and he gets a chance to get a masters degree from Duke. Also Duke isn't exactly overloaded with LSMs so maybe there's a chance he could actually play.

[wgdsr]

Former Syracuse LSM Tommy Drago is transferring to join @DukeMLAX, a source tells @Inside_Lacrosse.

Drago caused two TOs and picked up 3GBs in 17 games for the Orange this spring. His brother Anthony is a 5-star ’25 committed to the Blue Devils.

Drago is a 2020 4 star who was recruited by Desko/Rogers. Didn’t play as a freshman, one game as a sophomore and 4 as a junior. 17 games last year. With Olexo gone Drago was the most experienced LSM on the Cuse roster. Wonder what happened there?

My guess is he looked around and saw 8 LSMs on the roster next year including Olexo (probably and a 4 star they're bringing in), saw an opportunity to play a year with his brother, realized the winters are much nicer in Durham, and he gets a chance to get a masters degree from Duke. Also Duke isn't exactly overloaded with LSMs so maybe there's a chance he could actually play.

olexo's done as are the other 2 guys who got most of the leftover rotation. cuse will have pt there, but also guys that should fill it fine (sageder, scott, the new guy possibly, others. caccamo has played some.)
likely graduated and as you say duke as a grad year isn't a bad option. and they have potential pt as well next year. his brother doesn't show up until 25-26, but there's a relationship there. and maybe he got a medical redshirt as well.

[Powellfan22]

Former Syracuse LSM Tommy Drago is transferring to join @DukeMLAX, a source tells @Inside_Lacrosse.

Drago caused two TOs and picked up 3GBs in 17 games for the Orange this spring. His brother Anthony is a 5-star ’25 committed to the Blue Devils.

Drago is a 2020 4 star who was recruited by Desko/Rogers. Didn’t play as a freshman, one game as a sophomore and 4 as a junior. 17 games last year. With Olexo gone Drago was the most experienced LSM on the Cuse roster. Wonder what happened there?

My guess is he looked around and saw 8 LSMs on the roster next year including Olexo (probably and a 4 star they're bringing in), saw an opportunity to play a year with his brother, realized the winters are much nicer in Durham, and he gets a chance to get a masters degree from Duke. Also Duke isn't exactly overloaded with LSMs so maybe there's a chance he could actually play.

Olexo won't be back for Syracuse (he's on the Denver Outlaws right now). The LSM position for the Orange could be a little thin next year. Dylan Sageder and Kyle Gonsiorek are the only returning players. They bring in Michael Grace from RIT, and have a New Balance All American and Vincent Bolognino coming in. I think Drago would have had a decent chance to play next year, but far from a sure thing. He did see time as a man-down specialist last year. He always seemed to be one year away, but other guys seemed to be in his way. Best of luck.

I'm guessing Mac Christmas will be the main LSM for Duke next year, but the back up spot looks pretty wide open.

[GaitsRightHand]

Not adding them to the big list but for the sake of visibility, a couple more Maryland guys have entered the portal per IL: Ryan Falkenstein (M) and Cayden Onagi (A/M). Another Loyola guy (Danny Scott) is also in.

Yale FO Nick Ramsey is no longer listed

Could see Cayden Onagi going somewhere pretty good. Wouldn't be surprised if it was St Joes.

Didn't get much burn at MD, but he is a human highlight reel. Some of his juco highlights- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz-atn5HBRM

I really thought he'd get some run this year. I saw him at two of their scrimmages in the fall, and he looked really good. Flipped between A and M and caused defenses a lot of problems from both spots.

+1 especially when Maryland's offense was kinda trash this year I was disappointed and thought Tills would have tried inserting him in the line-up but he has more information.

I retract my SJU statement... hearing that he may not be D1 eligible due to academics. Could be a steal for a Limestone, RIT, etc.

Onagi to Limestone

[AreaLax]

According to IL podcast the new HC at HPU has convinced 3 of the guys in the portal will stay at HPU

They review several portal picks


https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i ... 0660289094

[HopFan16]

Griffin Turner from Hofstra to OSU: https://x.com/TerenceFoy/status/1806003086919385317

Incoming transfers to

Albany: Rocco Mareno (FO, Towson)
Boston U: Sam Burns (M, Ohio State), Matt Caputo (A, Ohio State)
Bryant: Richie Reid (M, St. John's), Brian Russell (M, Merrimack), Sage Garito (G, Franklin & Marshall), Nick Vance (M, Denison)
Bucknell: Luke Renaud (G, UMass Lowell)
Canisius: Jeff Douglas (D, Ursinus)
Dartmouth: Will Stahl (M, Holy Cross), Thomas Power (A, Colorado College)
Delaware: Cory Capri (A, Yale), Jack Kolbe (A, Merrimack), Aiden Bodonyi (D, Ohio State)
Denver: Judge Murphy (A, St. Lawrence)
Duke: Aiden Blake (M, Cornell), Graham Blake (A, Harvard), Paul Weathington (SSDM, Princeton), Eric Malever (A, Maryland), Luke Grayum (A, Richmond), Chris Cusolito (M, Providence), Tommy Drago (LSM, Syracuse)
Fairfield: KJ Delane (A, Merrimack), Luke Fisher (A, Denison)
Georgetown: Fulton Bayman (A, Notre Dame), Jack Erb (SSDM, Georgetown)
High Point: Jeb Brenfleck (A, Penn State)
Hobart: Michael Schafer (D, Manhattan)
Hofstra: Jon Singer (G, Ursinus)
Jacksonville: Drew Kessenich (M, Detroit Mercy), Dom Zingo (D, Lynchburg), Parker Yearego (M, Cleveland State)
Johns Hopkins: Jack Monfort (SSDM, Yale), John McKee (FO, Dickinson), Patrick Hackler (M, Yale), Luke Staudt (G, Loyola), Colby Weishaar (M/LSM/D, UMBC)
Le Moyne: Tom Vaughan (A, Cabrini)
LIU: Benjamin Schuster (M, Mount St. Mary's)
Loyola: Vinnie Trujillo (SSDM, Syracuse)
Manhattan: Connor Engel (A, Lindenwood)
Marquette: Jack Casey (D, Army), Chandler Caster (FO, Hofstra)
Maryland: Noah Armitage (M, Stony Brook), Bryce Ford (A, Fairfield), AJ Hernandez (D, Navy), Zack Goorno (SSDM, Bowdoin), Matthew Keegan (A, Binghamton), Luca Ward (A, Holy Cross), Jack Dowd (M, Salisbury)
Michigan: Pace Billings (LSM, Princeton), Lukas Stanat (M, Princeton), Will Byrne (A, Bowdoin), DJ Dixon (M, Wesleyan), Jackson Clay (A/M, High Point)
Mount St. Mary's: Nathan Committee (D, Bellarmine), Jack Smith (A, Randolph Macon)
NJIT: Russ Maher (M, Johns Hopkins), Dylan Sebastian (A, Hofstra)
North Carolina: Michael Gianforcaro (G, Princeton), Spencer Wirtheim (M, Cornell), Nick Dupuis (A, Stony Brook), Andrew O'Berry (SSDM, Harvard), Drew Scott (M, TCU football)
Notre Dame: Greg Campisi (LSM, Harvard), Drew Wynocker (M, Denver)
Ohio State: Ryan Donnery (M, Quinnipiac), Corey O'Connor (D, High Point), Mason Bregman (A, UMass), Shane O'Leary (M, UMass), Griffin Turner (M, Hofstra)
Penn: Chris Patterson (A, Hobart)
Penn State: Jack Aimone (M, Rutgers)
Providence: Dan Donahue (G, Union)
Richmond: Ethan Gyllenhaal (SSDM, Bucknell), Brooks Rhine (D, Hobart), Jack Dougherty (M, Stony Brook)
Rutgers: Joseph Juengerkes (SSDM, Princeton), Ethan Barnard (FO, Bowdoin), Kasey Mongillo (M, Merrimack), Greyson Vorgang (A, Denver), Brian Mack (D, Siena), Ben Stephanos (D, UMBC)
Saint Joseph's: Keaton Zavitz (M, Ohio State)
Sacred Heart: Matt Pepe (A, Bryant)
St. John's: Max Coopman (D, Bellarmine)
Stony Brook: Colin Reilly (M, North Carolina), Ethan Linsay (A, Army), Jack Crosby (LSM, Rutgers), Colin Langton (D, Stony Brook)
Syracuse: Mike Grace (D, RIT), Ryder Ochoa (SSDM, St. John's)
UMass: Gavin Begonia (A, Ohio State), Trace Hogan (M, Merrimack)
Villanova: Tyler Sandoval (FO, Princeton), Brett Mallee (D, Yale)
Virginia: Johnny Hackett (M, Bryant), Charles Balsamo (A/M, Duke), John Totaro (FO, Denver)

*Notable* players in portal:

Attack
Dutch Furlong, Bucknell
Blake Behlen, Stony Brook
Koleton Marquis, Johns Hopkins
Owen Murphy, Maryland
Ryan DiRocco, Army
Owen Bunten, Army

Midfield
Tommy Barnds, Princeton
Luke Nestor, Salisbury
Trevor Douglas, Quinnipiac
Nick Turrini, Lehigh
Gavin Dallas, Denver

Defense
Colin Hart, Brown
Mitch Dunham, Mount St. Mary's
Owen Quinn, UMass
Jordan Vincent, Syracuse

Goalie
Jamison MacLachlan, Stony Brook
Jack VanValkenburgh, Albany

FO
Andrew DeGennaro, Harvard
Andrew Greenspan, Notre Dame

[Henpecked]

Does anybody have information about Koleton Marquis from Hopkins? I saw him play at Don Bosco a couple years back and he looked like a can't miss recruit. He was a top 50 IL recruit and barely saw the field in his first two years at Hopkins. Can't understand why some team isn't bringing this guy in. He is only a sophomore and has three years of eligibility left from what I can see.

[ChopMan23]

Does anybody have information about Koleton Marquis from Hopkins? I saw him play at Don Bosco a couple years back and he looked like a can't miss recruit. He was a top 50 IL recruit and barely saw the field in his first two years at Hopkins. Can't understand why some team isn't bringing this guy in. He is only a sophomore and has three years of eligibility left from what I can see.

Read on another forum that St. Joe's was showing heavy interest.